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The Diabetes Network marked World Diabetes Day 2020 with activity on social media.
Tweets were posted on the day – Saturday, November 14 – to promote Diabetes My Way and Digibete, two digital resources the network is involved with which help people self-manage their diabetes.
The tweets also helped promote Diabetes UK’s campaign for this year, which carried the hashtag ‘AllTogether’ and highlighted how ‘one small act’ can make a difference. |
Dementia United, which works with the SCNs’ Dementia Network, has created a new app for people living with the condition and their carers.
Dementia United is Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership’s dementia programme and aims to make the region the best place to live if you have the condition, or are caring for someone with dementia.
It has worked in partnership with the social marketing agency Social Sense to develop Greater Moments, an innovative free app created for people living with dementia and their carers.
Greater Moments went live in early October and was created with an ambition to bring together all experiences which impact people affected by dementia, to help improve quality of life and drive improvements.
Greater Moments not only focuses on the symptoms of dementia, but captures many positive things, for example, friendships and achievements, alongside thoughts, feelings and concerns.
Initial feedback has been very positive with more than 100 users downloading the app. Comments have included, “I really like the look and the content of the app and can see it working for people” and 100% of testers saying “yes” to the question ‘Did you find the app useful?’.
Dementia United has been working on innovative ways to engage with people using the app and adding content during a challenging time when many events and activities are not happening. These include services from organisations like Age UK, Lewy Body Society, Arts 4 Dementia, LGBT Foundation and many events, including Zoom yoga sessions, craft sessions and walking groups.
Final changes are being made to the app in preparation for its major launch throughout December and January.
To learn more about Greater Moments click here.
To sign up to the Greater Moments app click here and fill out the sign-up form.
To learn more about GMHSC Partnership’s Dementia United programme, please visit its website or read the latest newsletter.
Birth parents are now being offered the opportunity to sign up to the digital app Peppy Baby.
The app, which is part of a pilot funded by NHSX, for which Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Services is the lead maternity provider, will see parents receive free additional expert support via the digital app.
Initially, 250 birth parents will be offered the chance to sign-up for the digital help. To be eligible, they must have a due date on or after December 28, 2020, and be booked at Saint Mary’s Hospital, Oxford Road campus, or Saint Mary’s Hospital, at Wythenshawe.
The app provides parents with additional support and expert advice on mental wellbeing, infant feeding and postnatal physiotherapy for pelvic floor health.
If you know someone who may be interested in accessing this additional free support, which is offered from 37 weeks gestation to 8 weeks postnatally, please ask them to find out more here.
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During Covid-19, the suspension of face-to-face antenatal classes meant that parents were missing out on key information to support their maternity journey.
To address this, the Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Local Maternity System (GMEC LMS) worked collaboratively with various partners across the system to develop an online resource for antenatal education.
This was in the form of an antenatal education section on the existing My Birth My Choice website.
The SCN’s Maternity Network, the University of Manchester, the University of Salford, the Maternity Voices Partnership, maternity units in GM and Eastern Cheshire and teams such as Health Visiting, Smoking in Pregnancy, Alcohol Exposed Pregnancies, Mental Health and others, all worked together and contributed to the resource.
Since the launch of the antenatal education resource, traffic on the website has increased significantly, with 9,675 page views and 2,601 users in October 2020, compared to 480 page views and 161 users in October 2019.
Madha Ayub, LMS senior project manager, said: “It is brilliant to see that the work is being accessed so frequently.
“The success of this resource truly represents the collaborative values behind the work of the LMS and the SCN’s Maternity Network. We will continue to improve the resources available, add more reliable information and work on translation and accessibility to reach even more service users.”
The antenatal education resource includes videos developed by student midwives and lecturers in GM&EC, videos and information developed by other teams in Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire (across the health system and voluntary and community sector) and lots of other resources on many key topics, including stages of labour, postnatal care and choosing your place of birth.
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